Come and set your imaginations free as we create our own, one of a kind, architectural assemblage angel. We will dress them in wings made of antique ceiling tin, vintage hardware, dimensional findings, collage and more. The addition of gesso stamping, inking and stenciling will help to add depth and dimension to our finished pieces. The base/form of our angels is based on one my Daddy created to make folk art pieces. As a way to honor him after his passing I chose to use his design for the angels.

Lesley is a self taught mixed media, collage, assemblage artist who lives in Roanoke, Virginia with her husband and their furry family which includes three dogs and two cats.

She has taught at Art Is You, Art & Soul in both Virginia and Oregon and Artiscape in Ohio. She is currently scheduled to teach in 2010 at Art & Soul Hampton, KC Willis’ Art Studio in Colorado and at Art Is You in Connecticut. She also has online classes scheduled at My Creative Classroom and has begun “The Art of Altering”, a NING group, that offers free vintage images as well as online classes (upcoming).Her artwork has been published in the Artitude Zine, Somerset Gallery 2008 and Somerset Weddings 4. She is a co-author of “Exploring the Latest Trends in Mixed Media Arts Volume I” and a contributing artist in Volume II. Two of Lesley’s fabric collages have also been chosen to appear in this Summer’s issue of Sew Somerset.